Missing Spanish Creoles Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages

Name: Missing Spanish Creoles Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages
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ISBN: 9780520219991

ISBN-10: 0520219996

ISBN-13: 9780520219991

Edition: 2000

Authors: John McWhorter

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John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintains that plantation creole languages emerged because African slaves greatly outnumbered whites on colonial plantations. Having little access to the slaveholders' European languages, the slaves were forced to build a new language from what fragments they did acquire. Not so, says McWhorter, who posits that plantation creole originated in West African trade settlements, in interactions between white…

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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/3/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Where Are the Spanish Creoles?



Introduction



Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico



"There Are Spanish Creoles": Papiamentu and Palenquero



"There Were Spanish Creoles": Bozal Spanish and the "Extinct Pan-Hispanic Creole"



"There Will Turn Out to Be Spanish Creoles"



Accommodating the Theory to the Data: Societes d'Habitations versus Plantations



The Spanish as Kinder, Gentler Colonizers



"Nothing Is at Issue": The "Case-by-Case" Argument



Conclusion



The Atlantic English-Based Creoles: Sisters Under the Skin



Introduction



Methodology



The Features



A Closer Look



Implications



Sociohistorical Evidence



Summary



The Creationist at a Cocktail Party: Afrogenesis and the Atlantic English-Based Creoles



Introduction



Dating the Emergence of Sranan



A Theoretical Anomaly



Barbados?



West African Trade Settlements



The Cormantin Castle



Linguistic Evidence for the Cormantin Scenario



Preserving the Paradigm



Hancock's Domestic Hypothesis



Conclusion



Off the Plantation for Good: The French-Based Creoles



Introduction



Linguistic Data



Sociohistorical Evidence



Exploring Other Perspectives



The Portuguese Creoles



The Dutch Question



Conclusion



Synthesis



Geocentrism and Creole Studies



The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Fundamental Outline



The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Elaboration



The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Problems Become Predictions



The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Changing the Lens



The Case-by-Case Argument



The Reality of the Paradigm



Conclusion



The Middle Ground



The Domain of the Afrogenesis Hypothesis



Standards of Evaluation



Curtain


References


Index